5th GEOBIA - Detailed Programme by ARTION Conferences & Events

21 - 24 MAY 2014 • MAKEDONIA PALACE HOTEL THESSALONIKI • GREECE

www.geobia2014.web.auth.gr

Programme Hosted by

Under the Auspices HELLENIC REPUBLIC

Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs

HELLENIC REPUBLIC

Ministry of Rural Development and Food

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Wednesday, 21 May 2014 Venue: Makedonia Palace Hotel Parallel workshops 08:00 - 09:00 Registrations 09:00 - 10:30 Technical workshops - Intergraph Imagine Objective (Alexandros ΙΙ) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Technical workshops - Intergraph Imagine Objective 10:00 - 12:30 Technical workshops - IBEC IC (Clio) 09:00 - 16:00 Technical workshops – EO POWER (Alexandros Ι) 13:00 - 14:00 Light lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Technical workshops - TRIMBLE eCognition (Alexandros ΙΙ) 15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break 15:45 - 16:45 Technical workshops - TRIMBLE eCognition

Venue: Thessaloniki Concert Hall Aimilios Riadis Hall 17:00 - 17:30 17:30 - 18:30 18:30 - 20:00 20:00 - 21:00

Welcome speeches Keynote speech by Dr. Barbara Ryan (GEO Secretariat, Switzerland) Round table Welcome reception

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Thursday, 22 May 2014

Thursday, 22 May 2014 08:00 - 09:00 Registrations 09:00 - 17:00 ΕΟ-POWER meeting (Clio) 09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speeches (Aristotelis I) 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Maggi Kelly (University of California – Berkeley, USA) 09:45 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Roy (South Dakota State University, USA) 10:30 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 – 13:00 Classification I (Aristotelis I) 11:10 - 11:15 Trimble Navigation Limited – Transforming the way the world works Christian Hoffmann 11:15 - 11:30 Whats new in eCognition 9. OBIA and GIS Dr. Waldemar Krebs (Trimble) 11:30 - 11:45 OT1-011. Ontology-based change detection of buildings, from remotely sensed imagery A. Argyridis, D. Argialas 11:45 - 12:00 OT1-006. Fuzzy synthetic evaluation of object based image analysis landslide mapping B. Feizizadeh, D. Tiede, R.H. Moghaddam, T. Blaschke 12:00 - 12:15 OT1-003. Algorithms and attributes for coffee mapping in South Minas Gerais, Brazil C.G. Souza, L.M.T. Carvalho, T.B. Arantes, P.A. Santos, C.H.R. Sousa, A.M. Pereira 12:15 - 12:30 OT1-009. Knowledge Model for classes of land cover in Santo André city (Brazil) using OBIA software InterImage T. Frank, T.C.S. Rodrigues, H. Kux 12:30 - 12:45 OT1-001. A watershed-based spectral-spatial segmentation and classification scheme for remote sensing images S.K. Mylonas, D.G. Stavrakoudis, C.A. Topaloglou , J.B. Theocharis, P.A. Mastorocostas 12:45 - 13:00 OT1-007. Impact of training set size and feature dimensionality on object-based land cover classification: a comparison of three classifiers G. Myburgh, A. Van Niekerk

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Thursday, 22 May 2014

11:15 – 13:00 Change Detection (Aristotelis II) 11:15 - 11:30 OT2-018. Reducing false positives in change detection C.J. Van der Sande, B.G.H. Gorte 11:30 - 11:45 OT2-012. An object-oriented change detection method based on backtracking of high spatial resolution remote sensing images G. Wang, G. He, J. Liu 11:45 - 12:00 OT2-013. Change detection algorithm for the production of land cover change maps S. Aleksandrowicz, K. Turlej, S. Lewiński, Z. Bochenek 12:00 - 12:15 OT2-017. Object oriented contextual rule based classification and change detection in an urban area with high rise buildings S. Shrestha, Z. Bochenek, C. Smith 12:15 – 12:30 OT2-016. Land use change detection in Lake Kastoria using parcel-based segmentation of multi-temporal Landsat imagery J. Panagiotou, C.G. Karydas, I.Z. Gitas 12:30 – 12:45 OT2-015. Historic surface models using dense matching approaches for object based detection of buildings for time series K. Hilfiker, N. Lack, S. Nebiker 12:45 - 13:00 OT2-014. Detecting land cover changes from overgrazing using remote sensing techniques: a case study of Randi Forest, Cyprus K. Themistocleous, G. Papadavid, M. Christoforou, A. Agapiou, K. Andreou, D. Tsaltas, D.G. Hadjimitsis

11:15 – 13:00 Urban Analysis I (Alexandros I) 11:15 - 11:30 OT3-027. Object-based analysis of VHR imagery for the measurement of the quality of life in urban areas K. Djerriri, M. Malki 11:30 - 11:45 OT3-023. Investigation of temporal changes of urban details using object-based image analysis A.M. Marangoz, M. Oruc, A. Sekertekin 11:45 - 12:00 OT3-028. Application of imagery analysis based on objects as a tool for monitoring the urban cadastre in small municipalities E. Bias, R. Antunes, E. Pereira, G. Costa, M. Richter, R. Brites 12:00 - 12:15 OT3-022. Investigating aggregation effect in depicting urban tress in a GEOBIA environment A. Jagannath, J. Didier 12:15 - 12:30 OT3-019. Building footprint extraction and 3D modelling from Pleiades and WorldView-1 imagery, incorporating a bayesian approach H. Sadeq, J. Drummond, Z. Li 12:30 - 12:45 OT3-030. Potential and idiosyncrasy of object-based image analysis for airborne lidar-based building detection I. Tomljenovic, T. Blaschke, B. Höfle, D. Tiede 5th GEOBIA

Thursday, 22 May 2014

11:15 – 13:00 Disaster Management Applications (Alexandros II) 11:15 - 11:30 O.T4-034. Detecting destruction in conflict areas in Darfur C. Knoth, E. Pebesma 11:30 - 11:45 O.T4-035. Investigating temporal and spatial variability of wildfire potential with the use of object-based image analysis of downscaled global climate models G.H. Mitri, M. Jazi, D. McWethy 11:45 - 12:00 O.T4-032. A novel approach for road damage assessment in case of major disaster based on multiresolution analysis I. Coulibaly, M. Ouled Sghaier, N. Spiric, W. Manzo-vargas, R. Lepage, M. St-Jacques 12:00 - 12:15 O.T4-037. Urban structural damage assessment using 3D object-oriented analysis and semantic reasoning A J. Fernandez Galarreta, N. Kerle, M. Gerke 12:15 - 12:30 O.T4-036. Object-based dwelling extraction in refugee/IDP camps – challenges in an operational mode P. Füreder, D. Tiede, S. Lang, F. Lüthje 12:30 - 12:45 O.T4-033. An examination of the effect of Ikonos pan-sharpening in burned area mapping accuracy E. Dragozi, I.Z. Gitas, D.G. Stavrakoudis, J.B. Theocharis 12:45 - 13:00 O.T14-122. Temporal analysis and environmental effects of ash dam construction of Çatalağzi Thermoelectric Power Plant K.S. Gormus, A. Sekertekin, M. Oruc, A.M. Marangoz

13:00 - 14:15 Light lunch 14:15 - 16:00 Classification II (Aristotelis I) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T1-004. Application of tree matching techniques to high resolution remotely sensed images toward object detection Y. Liang, A. Haleem Syed, E. Saber, N. Cahill 14:30 - 14:45 O.T1-010. Object-based analysis of Landsat legacy and continuity data for mapping fire-affected areas in the Mediterranean T. Katagis, I.Z. Gitas, G.H. Mitri 14:45 - 15:00 O.T1-008. Integrating knowledge-based expert systems and advanced machine learning for object-based image analysis A. Tzotsos, D. Argialas

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Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:00 - 15:15 O.T1-002. ABIA - a conceptional framework for Agent Based Image Analysis P. Hofmann, P. Lettmayer, T. Blaschke, M. Belgiu, S. Wegenkittl, R. Graf, T.J. Lampoltshammer, D. Wagner 15:15 – 15:30 O.T1-005. Detecting and tracking rainfall cloud objects from GOES imagery using machine learning algorithms S. Ramírez, I. Lizarazo 15:30 – 15:45 O.T13-117. Object-based multi-indicator representation of complex SPATIAL phenomenan S. Lang, S. Kienberger, L. Pernkopf, M. Hagenlocher, D. Tiede 15:45 - 16:00 O.T7-061. Effect of hyperspectral image denoising with PCA and total variation on tree species mapping using APEX data F.M.B. Van Coillie, W. Liao, F. Devriendt, S. Gautama, R.R. De Wulf, K. Vandekerkhove

14:15 – 16:00 Accuracy Assessment (Aristotelis II) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T6-055. Object-based Change Detection: How do image-objects mitigate the negative impact of misregistration on change accuracy? G. Chen 14:30 - 14:45 O.T6-053. Geometric quality evaluation of orthophotos created by DTM manually edited and by automatic filtering H.C. Oliveira, M. Galo 14:45 - 15:00 O.T6-054. Integrating thematic information into the assessment of image segmentation analyses for object-based land cover classification H. Costa, G.M. Foody, D.S. Boyd 15:00 - 15:15 O.T6-057. The step similarity matrix: another approach for object-based accuracy assessment of land cover classification I. Lizarazo 15:15 - 15:30 O.T6-056. Simulating geometric uncertainties of impervious areas based on image segmentation accuracy metrics V.C.E. Laurent, N. Saint-Geours, J.-S. Bailly, J.-P. Chéry 15:30 - 15:45 O.T6-052. DEM accuracy patterns in land-use / land-cover classification – case study of Lebanon W. Katerji, M. Farjas 15:45 - 16:00 O.T6-051. Archaeological feature classification – an object oriented approach M. Pregesbauer, C. Sevara

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Thursday, 22 May 2014

14:15 – 16:00 Environmental Applications I (Alexandros I) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T5-048. The examination of geologic formations in terms of Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature (LST) by using landsat images: a case study of Zonguldak, Turkey A. Sekertekin, A.M. Marangoz, M. Oruc, S.H. Kutoglu, H.K. Citiroglu 14:30 - 14:45 O.T5-046. Object-based derivation of wind erosion areas in the Siberian Kulunda steppe with RapidEye data I. Walde, T. Theisel, S. Hese , C. Schmullius 14:45 - 15:00 O.T5-044. Long-term human impact on alpine tundra – 25 years of changes assessed by aerial photography J. Müllerová, M. Vítková 15:00 - 15:15 O.T5-047. Selection of waste disposal site in Akure using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) T. Bayode 15:15 - 15:30 O.T5-038. A geographic object based approach for active river channel delineation from near infrared VHR imagery and Lidar derived products L. Demarchi, S. Bizzi, C.J. Weissteiner 15:30 - 15:45 O.T5-041. Discharge reconstruction in the Ganges Delta, connecting individual channels into rivers E.A. Addink, P.D.A. Kraaijenbrink, M.G. Kleinhans 15:45 - 16:00 O.T5-039. Australian land cover mapping with Landsat data: the methodology and experiments with GLC decision tree Z. Liang, S. Huiyong, Q. Chengjin, Z. Penglei, L. Wei, A. Fang

14:15 – 16:00 Forest Analysis I (Alexandros II) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T7-064. Investigating the accuracy of tree wood volume estimation of forest stand trees by the exclusive use of satellite imagery P. Stournara, P. Patias, D. Karamanolis 14:30 - 14:45 O.T7-063. Integrating high and very high resolution images for mapping a diverse forested landscape P. Xofis, K. Poirazidis, D. Fountopoulou 14:45 - 15:00 O.T7-066. Mapping physiographic types of mangrove forests through the object-based classification method P.M.M. Almeida, M.L.G. Soares, G.C.D. Estrada, C.B.M. Cruz, V. Fernandez 15:00 - 15:15 O.T7-062. How can spectral, textural and form parameters determine the degradation status of populus euphratica trees P. Gärtner, M. Förster, A. Kurban, B. Kleinschmit 15:15 - 15:30 O.T7-072. Use of satellite images for calculating biomass in eucalyptus forest in the municipality of Botucatu, São Paulo State, Brazil B.S.X. Barros, C.M.S. Catita, J.C.C.C. Fernandes, Z.X. Barros

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Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:30 - 15:45 O.T7-067. Mapping vegetation species for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) using GEOEYE IMAGERY C.G. Karydas, P. Stournara, I.Z. Gitas, M. Tsakiri 15:45 - 16:00 O.T11-104. Fusion of pixel-based and object-based features for classification of urban hyperspectral remote sensing data W. Liao, F. Devriendt, F. Van Coillie, S. Gautama, A. Pizurica, W. Philips

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Poster viewing (Poster Area: Amfitryon) P-01. CROP CLASSIFICATION BY USING RAPIDEYE AND LANDSAT 8 SATELLITE P. Lugonja, B. Brkljac, V. Crnojevic P-02. EXPLOITING SEASONAL INFORMATION TO DETERMINE THE SOIL SEALING DEGREE D. Stathakis , I. Faraslis, D. Triantakonstantis P-03. LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION BASED ON SPARSE REPRESENTATION OF TEMPORAL COVARIANCE DESCRIPTORS B. Brkljač, V. Crnojević P-04. LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION COMBINING OBJECT AND PIXEL BASED CLASSIFIERS AND GIS DATA - SPOT5 STUDY S. Aleksandrowicz, S. Lewiński, E. Woźniak P-05. USE OF CLASSIFICATION ALGOTHIMS J48 FOR MAPPING LAND USE AND COVER M.M. Faria, L.F.T. De Souza, V.H. Persil, E.I. Fernandes Filho, M.R. Francelino P-06. A COST-EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SOIL SEALING CHANGE DETECTION FROM LANDSAT IMAGERY T. Ceccarelli, D. Smiraglia, S. Rinaldo, S. Bajocco, L. Salvati, L. Perini P-07. UNSUPERVISED CHANGE DETECTION IN LARGE-SIZE IMAGES: EXPLORING EDGES IN MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING ACQUISITIONS M. Zortea, A-B. Salberg, R. Solberg P-10. OBJECT-BASED CHANGE DETECTION OF WORLDVIEW-2 DATA FOR URBAN DYNAMIC MONITORING Q. Chen, Y.H. Chen, X. Chen P-11. AIR QUALITY MONITORING AT REGIONAL AND LOCAL SCALES IN INDIA WITH SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF COLUMNAR AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS AND TROPOSPHERIC NO2 DENSITY R.H. Chaudhari, R. Menon, R. Kumar, V. Sethi P-12. APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING IN THE STUDY OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY: THE CASE OF THESSALONIKI AND KARDITSA A. Matsis, D. Kaimaris 5th GEOBIA

Thursday, 22 May 2014 P-13. GEOVISUALISATION AND IMAGING PRACTICES IN MONITORING COASTAL ZONE WITH SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA E. Panayiotou, E. Stylianidis, D. Kaimaris P-14. LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING OLI/LANDSAT 8 DATA: HYDROGRAPHIC REGION OF THE GUANABARA BAY - RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL M.V.A. Carvalho, H.J.H. Kux, T.G. Florenzano P-15. LONG TERM MONITORING OF URBAN GREEN SPACES IN MAJOR EUROPEAN CITIES D. Fountopoulou, P. Xofis P-16. OBIA OF MULTI-DATE LANDSAT IMAGERY FOR MONITORING URBAN AREAS EVOLUTION - THE CASE OF ATHENS E. Siora, D. Argialas P-17. SPATIAL PLACEMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES WITH THE USE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF VERIA MUNICIPALITY, CENTRAL MACEDONIA, GREECE V. Papakonstantinou, D. Kaimaris P-19. TRANSFORMING IMAGE-OBJECTS INTO FIELDS: A GEOBIA APPROACH TO MITIGATE RADIOMETRIC VARIABILITY WITHIN A H-RES TIR URBAN SCENE M.M. Rahman, G.J. Hay P-20. URBAN GREEN CHARACTERISTICS OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN THESSALONIKI GREECE, USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES S. Manika, A. Stamou, P. Patias P-21. VIRTUAL 3D CITY MODELS FOR REAL TIME VISUALIZATION AND MULTIPURPOSE MANAGING OF COMPLEX 3D OBJECTS E.S. Malinverni, E. Frontoni, A. Mancini, A.N. Tassetti, R. Pierdicca, P. Zingaretti P-22. APPLICATION OF DATA MINING AND GEOBIA TECHNIQUES FOR FIRE SUSCEPTIBILITY ANALYSIS IN THE ITATIAIA NATIONAL PARK, BRAZIL G.M. Sousa, M.C. Fernandes, G.A.O.P. Costa P-23. LANDSLIDE INVENTORY MAP USING GIS TOOLS AND FIELD EXPERIENCE - THE CASE OF ACHAIA PREFECTURE, WESTERN GREECE K. Kavoura, K. Nikolakopoulos, N. Sabatakakis P-44. AN IMAGE SEGMENTATION PROCESS ENHANCEMENT FOR LAND COVER MAPPING FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA M. Vitter, C. Jacqueminet, B. Etlicher, R. Martin, P. Pluvinet P-45. DYNAMIC SCALE- SPACE REPRESENTATION BASED ON MRF REGION MERGING MODEL Y. Hu, A.H. Syed, E. Saber, N. Cahill P-46. EVALUATION OF THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN AN ITERATIVE SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE A. Ehammer, R. Fensholt

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Thursday, 22 May 2014 P-47. IMPROVING IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH AUTOMATED REFINEMENT OF OBJECTS O. Csillik, L. Drăguț P-48. MULTI-SCALE OPTIMAL SEGMENTATION APPROACH FOR OBJECTBASED LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION L. Zhang, K. Jia, X. Li P-62. THE RELEVANCE OF RELIEF IN GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS C.E. Prichoa, S.R.A. Ribeiro, P.M. Holgado P-43. NO- SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION OF USE AND OCCUPANCY OF THE EARTH COMPARING METHODS OF PIXEL LEVEL AND OBJECT-ORIENTED IN RAPIDEYE IMAGE D.A. Antunes, S.R.A. Ribeiro P-51. FORCING A CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK-LOOP BETWEEN HEURISTIC HUMAN EDGE INTERPRETATION AND A BAYESIAN EDGE DETECTION ROUTINE L. Feltrin P-52. METHODOLOGY FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC INTERPRETATION OF DIGITAL MULTISENSOR IMAGES FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETECTION AND EXTRACTION OF UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES A. Krtalić, I. Racetin P-09. OBJECT ORIENTED METHODOLOGY FOR CHANGE DETECTION TECHNIQUE P. Orlando, E. La Rosa P-49. ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF DETAIL IN CLASSIFICATIONS OF URBAN AREAS WITH OPTICAL VHR AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES USING NONPARAMETRIC METHODS C.S. Anjos, C.M. Almeida, L.S. Galvão, C.R. Souza Filho P-63. THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MAPS OF HIGH RISK AREAS IN CYPRUS DUE TO CORROSION OF STEEL REINFORCEMENT USING GIS: THE ‘STEELCOR’ PROJECT K. Themistocleous , A. Christofe, K. Neocleous , A. Agapiou, M. Tzouvaras, Z. Achillides, M. Panayiotou, D.G. Hadjimitsis P-63A. Development of GIS tools for the MEDNET port operations observatory in the Mediterranean M. Tzouvaras, Z. Xagoraris, G. Soulis, D. Tsamboulas, A. Lekka, K. Themistocleous, A. Christofe, N. Ioannou, D.G. Hadjimitsis

16:30 – 18:15 Urban Analysis II (Aristotelis I) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T3-024. Knowledge-based building change detection from high resolution satellite imagery using ancillary geospatial information G. Doxani , K. Karantzalos, M. Tsakiri- Strati 5th GEOBIA

Thursday, 22 May 2014 16:45 - 17:00 O.T3-021. Improved urban land cover mapping using Worldview-2 imagery, for estimating the geographical distribution of the available roof surface area for photovoltaic potential applications in urban environments A. Stamou, P. Patias, M. Tsakiri-Strati, O. Georgoula 17:00 - 17:15 O.T3-025. Mapping informal dwellings using high resolution Worldview-2 imagery K. Ballim, R. Ismail, N.K. Poona 17:15 - 17:30 O.T3-029. Optical navigation filter based on road information K. Kozempel 17:30 - 17:45 O.T3-026. Multi-scale methodology to map urban structures: classification of PLEIADES images combined to existing geographic data E. Hanson, J. Deniau, L. Vétillard, O. Benarchid, J. Nabucet, S. Rougier, A. Puissant, L. Hubert-Moy, E. Wolff 17:45 - 18:00 O.T3-020. Evaluation of the free software InterIMAGE for OBIA in urban coastal areas T.C.S. Rodrigues, T. Frank, H. Kux 18:00 - 18:15 O.T3-031. Urban development and population estimation in Central Africa through remote sensing C. Michellier, E. Hanson, E. Wolff

16:30 – 18:15 Segmentation I (Aristotelis II) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T9-085. Data Mining and Object Based Image Analysis applied to soybean areas classification through timeseries TM/ETM images B. Schultz, G. Bertani, M.A. Vieira, I.D.R. Eberhardt, A.R. Formaggio, A.J.B. Luiz, C. Atzberger 16:45 - 17:00 O.T9-082. Classifier directed data transformations in sample supervised segment generation C.E. Fourie, E. Schoepfer 17:00 - 17:15 O.T9-088. Heuristic-based segment fusion of sloped rooftops to obtain complete footprint of buildings from VHR optical satellite images D. Dubois, R. Lepage 17:15 - 17:30 O.T9-087. FusionSeg: fusioning of multi-source remote sensing data at the segmentation stage D.M. Uba, L.V. Dutra, G.A.O.P. Costa, S.J.S. Sant’Anna 17:30 - 17:45 O.T9-090. Improvements of urban vegetation segmentation and classification using multi-temporal PLEIADES images S. Rougier, A. Puissant 17:45 - 18:00 O.T9-092. Monitoring tropical forest at 1:100.000 scale using an endto-end object based image analysis approach. Case study: La Macarena national park J. Espejo, I. Lizarazo

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Thursday, 22 May 2014 18:00 - 18:15 O.T9-081. Automated multiresolution segmentation on multiple layers L. Drăguţ, O. Csillik, C. Eisank, D. Tiede

16:30 – 18:15 Ontologies (Alexandros I) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T13-119. Transferring ontologies to object based image analysis frameworks M. Belgiu, B. Hofer, P. Hofmann, T. Blaschke 16:45 - 17:00 O.T13-113. Extending the extensible observation ontology (OBOE) for describing and classifying image objects D. Arvor 17:00 - 17:15 O.T13-114. GEOBIA as mediator between remote sensing and GIS P. Hofmann 17:15 - 17:30 TBA

16:30 – 18:15 Forest Analysis II & Pixel vs Object (Alexandros II) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T7-071. The utilization of GEOBIA for a hyperspectral mixture analysis of tree crown components M. Förster, H. Bruzual-Alfonzo, A. Clasen, B. Kleinschmit 16:45 - 17:00 O.T7-065. Mapping forest inventory stands based on segmentation of a digital elevation model and satellite images M.A. Korets 17:00 - 17:15 O.T7-059. Combining digital object based approaches for mangrove tree crown delineation M. Heenkenda, K.E. Joyce, S. Maier 17:15 - 17:30 O.T7-073. Using OBIA to examine the impact of bait worming on seagrass meadows in Moreton Bay, Queensland S.J. Baltais 17:30 - 17:45 O.T8-076. Object-based image classification assisted by semivariogram features X. Wu, W. Cui, J. Shan 17:45 - 18:00 O.T8-075. Influence of the methodology (pixel-based vs object-based) to extract urban vegetation from VHR images in different urban districts N. Long, A. Bellec, E. Bocher, G. Petit 18:00 - 18:15 O.T9-089. Image segmentation based on hexagonal sampling grids P. Hofmann, D. Tiede

20:30 Conference dinner (Alexandros)

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Friday, 23 May - Saturday, 24 May 2014

Friday, 23 May 2014 Excursion to Mount Olympus

Saturday, 24 May 2014 09:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speeches (Aristotelis I) 09:00 - 09:45 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul Aplin (University of Nottingham, UK) 09:45 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Hay (University of Calgary, Canada) 10:30 - 11:15 Coffee break 11:15 – 13:00 Feature Extraction (Aristotelis I) 11:15 - 11:30 O.T10-100. On the transferability of rule sets for mapping cirques using object-based feature extraction from LiDAR data A.C. Seijmonsbergen, R.M. Gabriner, S.M. Marselis, N.S. Anders, W. Bouten 11:30 - 11:45 O.T10-097. Mapping sugarcane grub damage from high spatial resolution satellite imagery K. Johansen, A. Robson, P. Samson, N. Sallam, K. Chandler, L. Derby, J. Jennings, A. Eaton 11:45 - 12:00 O.T10-099. Object-based DTM generation from a VHR-stereo stellite imagery derived DSM F. Luethje, D. Tiede, C. Eisank 12:00 - 12:15 O.T10-098. Multi-scale and multi-sensor OBIA methods for conflict research and humanitarian relief applications S. Plank, P. Aravena Pelizari, K. Spröhnle, E.-M. Bernhard, A. Mager, R. Nitsche, S. Martinis, E. Schoepfer

11:15 – 13:00 New Data and Sensors (Aristotelis II) 11:15 - 11:30 O.T15-130. Land cover maps of the western part of Krakow using geographic object-based image analysis of RapidEye imagery, aerial orthophotos and ALS data P. Hawrylo, P. Wezyk 11:30 - 11:45 O.T11-101. Analysis of ground penetrating radar depth slices – an objectoriented approach M. Pregesbauer, I. Trinks, E. Nau, K. Löcker 12

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Saturday, 24 May 2014 11:45 - 12:00 O.T11-103. Evaluation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) high spatial resolution data to produce digital terrain model and visible spectral imagery W.S. Almeida, L.S. Silva, E.D. Christakou, D.S.R. Junior, E.E.A.S. Junior, C.P.L. Silva 12:00 - 12:15 O.T11-102. Detection of temporary objects in mobile lidar points clouds X. Fang, G. Li, K. Khoshelham, S.J. Oude Elberink 12:15 - 12:30 O.T11-105. UAV’s images for tree counting in eucalyptus stands M.C.R. Andrade, W. Foschiera, V.E.M. Dória, T.S. Korting, L.M.F. Costa

11:15 – 13:00 Forest Analysis III (Alexandros I) 11:15 - 11:30 O.T8-074. Comparing pixel-based and object-based classification methodologies for mapping impervious surfaces in Wallonia using orthoimagery, LIDAR and ancillary thematic data R. Van De Kerchove, E. Hanson, E. Wolff 11:30 - 11:45 O.T7-068. Mountain forest disturbances analysed using historical aerial imagery J. Wild, J. Brůna, M. Svoboda 11:45 - 12:00 O.T7-060. Discrimination of tropical agroforestry systems in very high resolution satellite imagery using object-based hierarchical classification: a case-study in Cameroon C.C.D. Lelong, C. Alexandre, S. Dupuy 12:00 - 12:15 O.T7-070. Object-based classification of land use transformation systems in a forested tropical landscape using rapideye satellite imagery D.N. Melati, P. Magdon, H. Fuchs, C. Pérez, L. Fehrmann, C. Kleinn 12:15 - 12:30 O.T6-058. A comparison of Lidar and image-derived canopy height models for individual tree crown segmentation with object based image analysis P. Tompalski, P. Wężyk, M. Weidenbach, R. de Kok, P. Hawrylo 12:30 - 12:45 O.T5-049. The land use and land cover (LULC) map of the water catchment areas in south Poland, based on the geobia multi-stage aproach of blackbridge RapidEye, Landsat and vector data, as an essential part of the salmar project P. Wezyk, P. Hawrylo, M. Szostak, M. Pierzchalski, R. De Kok 12:45 - 13:00 O.T7-069. OBIA for delination and characterization of the riparian area over broad territories using multisource data T. Tormos, K. Van Looy

11:15 – 13:00 Geographic Object-Based Classification and Modeling (Alexandros II) 11:15 - 11:30 O.T12-108. Developing and modifying object-based habitat type classification in a boreal forest landscape A. Räsänen, M. Kuitunen, A. Lensu 5th GEOBIA

Saturday, 24 May 2014 11:30 - 11:45 O.T12-111. Object-based multi-sensor data fusion of satellite and aerial images for modeling mountain nature A.B. Salberg, L. Erikstad, S. Blumentrath, M. Zortea 11:45 - 12:00 O.T12-107. Class modelling of complex riparian forest habitats T. Strasser, S. Lang, T. Blaschke 12:00 - 12:15 O.T12-110. Integrating elevation data and multispectral high-resolution images for an improved hybrid land use /land cover mapping E.S. Malinverni, E. Frontoni, A. Mancini, A.N. Tassetti, R. Pierdicca, P. Zingaretti 12:15 - 12:30 O.T12-112. Οbject-oriented image analysis of geophysical data I. Fadel, N. Kerle, M. Van der Meijde 12:30 – 12:45 O.T12-106. An interactive object-based cellular automata for land-use/ land-cover simulation D.J. Marceau, H. Mazaheri 12:45 – 13:00 O.T12-109. GNORASI: a modular knowledge-based platform for objectbased image analysis C. Doulaverakis, A. Tzotsos, I. Tsampoulatidis, N. Gerontidis, A. Argyridis, K. Karantzalos, I. Kompatsiaris, D. Argialas

13:00 - 14:15 Light lunch 14:15 – 16:00 Methodological Issues and Challenges (Aristotelis I) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T13-115. Hunting for objects with a flat ontology of pixels C.P. Jackson 14:30 - 14:45 O.T13-116. Land cover class extraction in GEOBIA using environmental spatial temporal ontology A. Jagannath, M. Ahsan, D. Ritaban 14:45 - 15:00 O.T13-118. Towards better user interfaces for sample selection in image classification T.S. Körting, L.M.G. Fonseca, W.S. Costa

14:15 – 16:00 Environmental Applications II (Aristotelis II) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T5-043. Identification of transition zones in an evolving lake to wetland ecosystem using object based classification T.K. Alexandridis, A. Dimitrakos, I.Z. Gitas, M. Tompoulidou, C. Mitraki, T.L. Crisman, G. Zalidis 14:30 - 14:45 O.T5-050. The utility of wavelet-based texture measures to improve object-based classification of aerial images M. Immitzer, P. Toscani, C. Atzberger

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Saturday, 24 May 2014 14:45 - 15:00 O.T5-040. Automatic extraction of shorelines from multi-temporal and very high resolution images to monitor coastal ecosystem N. Long, F. Pouget, A. Bellec, E. Chaumillon, X. Bertin 15:00 - 15:15 O.T5-045. Object-based characterisation of reference sites for mine site closure using hyperspatial multispectral UAV imagery T. Whiteside, R. Bartolo, P. Erskine, A. Fletcher 15:15 - 15:30 O.T5-042. Geographic object-based analysis using time series of VHSR imagery for the study and monitoring of water level fluctuations in reservoirs R.N. Simon, T. Tormos, P.-A. Danis

14:15 - 16:00 Segmentation II (Alexandros I) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T9-083. Comparative assessment of segmentation algorithms and development of scale independent quality indicators C. Atzberger, M. Immitzer, T. Koukal , S. Böck , T. Ng, K. Einzmann 14:30 - 14:45 O.T9-084. Comparison of two edges detection operators for cartographic features extraction evaluation G.P. Cardim, S.A. Calçado, E.A. Da Silva, M.A. Dias 14:45 - 15:00 O.T9-079. An image interpretation methodology using independent class specific segmentations M. Musci, R.Q. Feitosa, G.A.O.P. Costa, C.M. Almeida 15:00 - 15:15 O.T9-077. A free software tool for automatic tuning of segmentation parameters P.M. Achanccaray, V.A. Ayma, L.I. Jimémez, S.B. Garcia, P.N. Happ, R.Q. Feitosa, A.J. Plaza 15:15 - 15:30 O.T9-094. Segmentation of a WorldView-2 image for feature identification in highly heterogeneous environments C.G. Karydas, M. Tompoulidou, C. Kalaitzidis, I.Z. Gitas 15:30 - 15:45 O.T9-080. An automatic procedure for small vessel detection from veryhigh resolution optical imagery U. Kanjir, A. Marsetič, P. Pehani, K. Oštir

14:15 - 16:00 Multitemporal Analysis (Alexandros II) 14:15 - 14:30 O.T14-120. A comparison of statistical and fuzzy approaches for cascade classification of multitemporal remote sensing images R.Q. Feitosa, L.M.T. Alvarado, T. Klinger, G.A.O.P. Costa, C. Heipke 14:30 - 14:45 O.T14-121. Object-based analysis of interannual variation within RAMSAR wetlands using time-series Worldview-2 multispectral imagery T.G. Whiteside, R. Bartolo

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Saturday, 24 May 2014 14:45 - 15:00 O.T14-123. The analysis of backscattering signature of Thermokarst ice lake in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) based on multi-temporal envisatasar imagery Z. Li, B. Tian, F. Niu, P. Tang, L. Huang, J. Xu, S. Fu 15:00 - 15:15 O.T14-124. An evaluation of multi-temporal Landsat 8 imagery for widescale land cover mapping G. Stephenson, T. Pauw, A. Van Niekerk

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:00 - 17:00 Poster viewing (Poster Area: Amfitryon) P-24. MAPPING BANANA PLANTS FROM ORTHOPHOTOS TO FACILITATE ERADICATION OF BANANA BUNCHY TOP VIRUS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA K. Johansen, M. Sohlback, B. Sullivan, S. Stringer, D. Peasley, S. Phinn P-25. TOWARDS MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING PLAN FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE SEA: THE CONTRIBUTION OF REMOTE SENSING D.G. Hadjimitsis, K. Themistocelous, A. Agapiou, C. Papoutsa P-26. COMPARISON OF THE ACCURACY OF CLASSIFICATIONS GENERATED BY INTERIMAGE AND BY INTERIMAGE INTEGRATED WITH DATA MINING D. Passos, E. Bias, R. Brites, G. Costa P-41. COMPARISON OF URBAN GREEN CLASSIFICATION METHODS USING QUICKBIRD, IKONOS AND WORLDVIEW-2 IMAGERY S.G. Antoniadou, A. Stamou, P. Patias P-58. CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN AREAS BY GEOGRAPHIC OBJECT-BASED ANALYSIS OF VERY HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING DATA R. Vatseva, M. Kopecka, J. Feranec, K. Rosina P-42. COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE OF OBJECT-BASED AND PER-PIXEL BASED ON THE RANGE OF VARIOUS SPATIAL PROPERTIES TO MAP HIGHLY COMPLEX URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN GREAT DETAIL R. Momeni, P. Aplin P-59. OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS OF MULTI-TEMPORAL THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES E.A. Baldina, M.Y. Grishchenko P-53. GEOREFERENCING OF PLEIADES STEREO PAIR IMAGES USING A NEW RIGOROUS ORIENTATION MODEL P. Deltsidis, C. Ioannidis P-54. MINI-UAV: A KEY IMAGING TOOL FOR GEOBIA J. L贸pez, J.W. Branch

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Saturday, 24 May 2014 P-55. REPRESENTATIVE SEA STATE PRIMITIVE OBJECTS EXTRACTION FROM ASAR DATA C. Vasileiadis, K. Topouzelis, D. Kitsiou P-56. THE USE OF RADARSAT-2 DATA FOR ABANDONED AGRICULTURAL LANDS CLASSIFICATION E.A. Baldina, K.A. Troshko P-57. TREE AND CROP SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN SENEGAL APPLYING OBIA ON PLEIADES SATELLITE IMAGES C. Lelong, V. Soti , S. Dupuy P-27. A COMPARISON OF PIXEL AND OBJECT BASED POSTCLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS FOR MONITORING CHANGES ON WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY IN NESTOS RIVER DELTA, GREECE E. Vakaki, G. Mallinis, M. Tsakiri-Strati, G. Doxani, S. Siachalou P-28. A GEOBIA FRAMEWORK FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FOREST DEFINITIONS USING VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION OPTICAL SATELLITE DATA M. Tompoulidou, I.Z. Gitas, A. Polychronaki, G. Mallinis P-29. ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION ON CHANGE TENDENCY OF VEGETATION VARIATION IN QINGHAI PROVINCE BASED ON HURST INDEX C. Luo, J. Wang, P. Li, Y. Xiong P-30. ASSESSING IDENTIFICATION CAPABILITY OF DOMINANT TREE SPECIES WITH AERIAL IMAGES USING OBJECT-BASED METHOD O. Rafieyan, A.A. Darvishsefat P-31. ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIVE ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN VEGETATION VARIATION IN SRTR Q. Yan, C. Luo, M. Liu, J. Wang P-32. COMBINATION OF UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION AND WATER BODY DEPTH TO SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION MAPPING: NOVA AVANHANDAVA RESERVOIR, BRASIL L.H.S. Rotta, E.H. Alc창ntara, F.S.Y Watanabe, T.W.P. Rodrigues, U.S. Guimar찾es, N.N. Imai P-33. EVALUATION OF FOREST CHANGES BASED ON THE FUSION OF MULTISPECTRAL AND LIDAR DATA P. Stych, K. Lihanova P-34. INVESTIGATION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF TREE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION IN ULTRACAM-D DATA BY OBJECT-BASED METHOD A. Darvishsefat, M. Shabanipour, O. Rafieyan, V. Etemad P-35. LAND ABANDONMENT MAPPING IN THE POLISH CARPATHIANS N. Kolecka, J. Kozak, A. Psomas P-36. LAND USE PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR OBJECT-BASED HABITAT TYPE CLASSIFICATION DATA A. Lensu, A. R채s채nen, M. Kuitunen 5th GEOBIA

Saturday, 24 May 2014 P-60. A FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING MULTITEMPORAL DETECTION OF SCATTERED TREES WITH SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS AND OBJECTORIENTED APPROACH J. Adamczyk P-37. MONITORING TREELINE SHIFT OVER A 60-YEAR PERIOD USING OBJECT-BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND SATELLITE DATA M. Zubkova, I.Z. Gitas, C. Kalaitzidis, G. Mallinis P-18. TEMPORAL MONITORING OF SOIL USE FOR URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING: EXAMPLE ABOUT THE ROLE OF SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ON TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT G.L.S. Lopes, I.M. Correa P-39. OBJECT-ORIENTED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF A SITE WITH FORESTS OF ARAUCARIAS J. Villalba, P. Costa, T. Korting P-40. SYNERGETIC USE OF TANDEM-X AND RAPIDEYE TO SUPPORT OBJECT BASED LAND USE/LAND COVER MAPPING M. Schlund, V. Herrera Cruz, F. Von Poncet P-08. TIMELESS CONTROL OF LAND USE CHANGES IN SEMI MOUNTAINOUS AREAS TO PERIURBAN AND TOURIST AREAS V.C. Drosos, A. Stergiadou, V.J. Giannoulas, A.-K.G. Doukas

16:30 – 18:15 GIS Mapping (Aristotelis I) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T15-129. Integration of GEOBIA with GIS for semi-automatic land cover mapping from Landsat 8 imagery J. Urbanski 16:45 - 17:00 O.T15-128. GEOBIA approaches to geospatial data fusion J.P.M. O’Neil-Dunne, S.W. MacFadeni, M.F. Reis, R. West, R.B. Pless 17:00 - 17:15 O.T15-125. “Smart Maintenance” - Real time visualization of GIS-based information for river basin risks and hazard assessment E.S. Malinverni, E. Frontoni, A. Mancini, A.N. Tassetti, R. Pierdicca, P. Zingaretti, E. Marcheggiani 17:15 - 17:30 O.T15-127. Assessing the value of combining multi-resolution imagery for mapping land cover over large, complex regions T. Pauw, G. Stephenson, A. Van Niekerk 17:30 - 17:45 O.T15-131. Population estimation from remote sensing: case of Al Ain, UAE M.M. Yagoub, Α.Ν.Κ.Α. Darei

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16:30 – 18:15 Automated Feature Detection for Specific Targets (Aristotelis II) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T16-133. Automatic extraction of oil palm trees in high resolution aerial color images from a plantation in Ecuador J.F. Gonzalez, F. Ponce De Leon, J. Biermann 16:45 - 17:00 O.T16-137. Object-based image analyst for grain size measurement in river gravel bars: segmentation evaluation P. Castro, R.S. Vícens 17:00 - 17:15 O.T16-136. Object-based image analysis for detecting indicators of mine presence/absence to support suspected hazardous area re-delineation in the Republic of Croatia S. Vanhuysse, E. Hanson, E. Wolff, D. Hölbling, B. Friedl, M. Hagenlocher, A. Krtalić, I. Racetin 17:15 - 17:30 O.T16-135. Indicators of mine presence: focus on trenches V. Lacroix, S. Van Huysse 17:30 - 17:45 O.T16-134. Expert knowledge for object-based landslide mapping in Τaiwan C. Eisank, D. Hölbling, B. Friedl, Y.-C. Chen, K.-T. Chang 17:45 - 18:00 O.T16-138. Pixels the forgotten objects of OBIA G.M. Smith 18:00 - 18:15 O.T16-132. Automated OBIA mapping and classification of rain-induced landslides with VHR post-event optical images and HR pre-event LiDAR DEM S. Heleno, M. Matias, M. Vasconcelos, A.J. Sousa, P. Pina

16:30 – 18:15 Segmentation III (Alexandros I) 16:30 - 16:45 O.T9-078. Adaptive segmentation of heterogeneous images using metaheuristic optimization H. Herold, G. Meinel, E. Cspalovics 16:45 - 17:00 O.T9-091. InterImage 2: The architecture of an open source, high performance framework for automatic, knowledge-based image interpretation R.S. Ferreira, D.A.B Oliveira, P.N. Happ, G.A.O.P. Costa, R.Q. Feitosa, C. Bentes 17:00 - 17:15 O.T9-086. Extracting Agricultural objects in GEOBIA framework using AGROVOC and Worldview-2 Imagery A. Jagannath, M. Ahsan, D. Ritaban 17:15 - 17:30 O.T9-093. Segmentation algorithm for single house detection in informal settlements (SLUMS) T. Veljanovski, U. Kanjir, K. Oštir 17:30 - 17:45 O.T9-095. Specific target objects - specific scale levels? Application of the Estimation of Scale Parameter 2 (ESP2) tool for the identification of distinct target object scale levels S. d’Oleire-Oltmanns, D. Tiede 5th GEOBIA

Saturday, 24 May 2014 17:45 - 18:00 O.T9-096. Supervised and unsupervised segmentation evaluation methods â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a comparative study M. Belgiu, L. Dragut

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